| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 08:26 - Feb 11 with 407 views | gainsboroughblue |
Serie B in Italy do similar with the play-offs extended to 8 clubs but I believe if the third place club is 9 points ahead of fourth place, they go up automatically. |  |
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| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 08:50 - Feb 11 with 371 views | HighgateBlue |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 18:12 - Feb 10 by TJS |
I think that weird split thing was designed on the assumption of it ever only being a two horse race in Scotland and is finally going to cause problems this season. |
See also: the UK electoral system. |  | | |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 08:50 - Feb 11 with 372 views | OldFart71 |
Utter rubbish. If there are three places for promotion the first three should go up. Yes you could say for some teams the season would be over half way through the season.
But it's just a money getting game for the wembley coffers. If that's the case that you must have three go up and have playoffs why don't they do the same to the teams in the bottom six.
If you finish ten points clear of the sixth team why should you play off against them. One mistake, one bad refereeing decision and a whole seasons toil is wrecked. Players leave, you start again and the chances are you aren't the team you were last season.
I know everyone knows the situation, but it is still very unfair and a waste of time and money. |  | | |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 08:58 - Feb 11 with 355 views | FrimleyBlue |
Do something like f1 points system but instead if financial gains..points
Where you finish in the league gets you bonus points for the following season.
Top 3 promoted
4th get 10 points for next season
5th get 9
6th get 8
Etc etc
Stops the argument of nothing to play for. [Post edited 11 Feb 9:03]
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| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 09:58 - Feb 11 with 315 views | vinceg |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 08:17 - Feb 11 by NedPlimpton |
Doesn't the national league do something like this and it's not worked out particularly well for those finishing higher in the league?
I know that was the case with York last year where Oldham just gained so much momentum from the first game whereas York hadn't had a match for a couple of weeks after the league finished
Not too keen on this |
Just look at the national league table from last year.
The lowest play-off place was occupied by Southend who finished a massive 34 points away from an automatic promotion spot, so why should they even get the chance of promotion?
I don't like the playoffs at best, but this change would be crazy. Imagine the team finishing 8th in the championship who are nowhere near good enough to get promotion actually going up to the Prem! Chances are they would get slaughtered.
If we must have palyoffs, keep them as they are |  | | |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 10:36 - Feb 11 with 296 views | rickw |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 17:46 - Feb 10 by TJS |
The proper way to do it would be to scrap second legs altogether.
Match day 1
5th at home to 8th
6th at home to 7th
Match day 2
3rd at home to lowest ranked team remaining from match day 1
4th at home to highest ranked team remaining from match day 1
Final at Wembley
This would effectively give some sort of additional benefit for every place achieved higher than 8th. |
I first thought the OP is a terrible idea as there's no benefit to finishing 3rd over 8th, however I would actually go for your idea - it gives more teams a chance, but the best chance goes to the team who deserves it the most. |  |
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| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 10:38 - Feb 11 with 294 views | rickw |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 09:58 - Feb 11 by vinceg |
Just look at the national league table from last year.
The lowest play-off place was occupied by Southend who finished a massive 34 points away from an automatic promotion spot, so why should they even get the chance of promotion?
I don't like the playoffs at best, but this change would be crazy. Imagine the team finishing 8th in the championship who are nowhere near good enough to get promotion actually going up to the Prem! Chances are they would get slaughtered.
If we must have palyoffs, keep them as they are |
Just look at last season's play-off winners - Sunderland, you never know what can happen! | |
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| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 11:34 - Feb 11 with 263 views | franz_tyson |
You know when you've got a good thing going and then someone wants to milk it further to make even more cash, even if it could ruin it.
The Championship is a great league on its own merit. Leave it alone. Why not try and stop cheating and time wasting and corner wrestling instead | | | |
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| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 11:59 - Feb 11 with 231 views | Jon_456 |
It’ll backfire.
The CH is already starting to become stale with teams setting up defensively and a lot of them happy for draws. It’s only going to get worse if teams know they can finish on 65-68 points and still have a chance of promotion.
Rewarding mediocrity and making the product worse at the same time. | | | |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 12:11 - Feb 11 with 225 views | Vaughan8 |
I might be in the minority but I like it for the national League. I think a lot of those teams would survive and aren't that far behind (if at all behind) some of the league 2 clubs.
I like it because the higher you finish the better draw you get. The current 2 legs, the only "better draw" is having the home game second leg.
However for the Championship to the PL, there is a big gulf especially over the last few years. That's why I'd be less for it for this league. | | | |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 14:20 - Feb 11 with 186 views | Radlett_blue |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 10:38 - Feb 11 by rickw |
Just look at last season's play-off winners - Sunderland, you never know what can happen! |
Well, Sunderland (whom I expected to be awful) turned their squad inside out but recruited well overseas.
That's what we will need to do in the summer if we go up. |  |
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| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 18:13 - Feb 11 with 147 views | PioneerBlue |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 18:10 - Feb 10 by SitfcB |
‘The EFL is understood to have gained the backing of its rights holder Sky Sports‘
Of course they have.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Just another money making exercise. |
Football consistently looks for solutions to problems that either dont exist or comes up with the wrong massive ground shaking solution for small problems that only need a tweak. | |
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| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 18:17 - Feb 11 with 141 views | Radlett_blue |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 18:13 - Feb 11 by PioneerBlue |
Football consistently looks for solutions to problems that either dont exist or comes up with the wrong massive ground shaking solution for small problems that only need a tweak. |
It's all about grabbing more money. Hence, the idea of playing PL games overseas, the idiotic FA Cup kick offs for "overseas TV rights", expanded play-offs etc etc.
However, the money largely gets recycled in higher wages & agents' fees. | |
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| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 19:21 - Feb 11 with 122 views | skinnybob72 |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 18:12 - Feb 10 by TJS |
I think that weird split thing was designed on the assumption of it ever only being a two horse race in Scotland and is finally going to cause problems this season. |
It's so that they can have 4 Old Firm games a season - if you ignore that one of them was liquidated...
Team's don't want a 10 team league and nobody wants a 44 match league season - so a 12 team league with a split is the compromise.
The headache comes if the 'wrong teams' make the top half as the original 33 games are based on league placings from last season - i.e. they expect the same top 6 again.
So, with Falkirk likely to gatecrash the top6 - along with Hearts & Motherwell who finished bottom 6 last season - there is a fixture imbalance.
Assuming top 6 stays as is then Hearts will already have played Celtic, Hibs, Motherwell & Falkirk at home twice before the split. That would, in theory, give them 4 away games after the split - and 20 away games to 18 home games in total.
While they are in a title race they cannot be shafted like that. However, with Celtic and maybe even Motherwell still in the hunt they can't be sent to Tynecastle for a 3rd time. I can't see Hibs being made to go there for a third time either! So, that would mean Falkirk having to travel to Tynecastle a third time.
No idea how the fixtures for Celtic, Rangers or Well look post split! | | | |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 13:47 - Feb 12 with 45 views | BtreeBlueBlood |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 17:46 - Feb 10 by TJS |
The proper way to do it would be to scrap second legs altogether.
Match day 1
5th at home to 8th
6th at home to 7th
Match day 2
3rd at home to lowest ranked team remaining from match day 1
4th at home to highest ranked team remaining from match day 1
Final at Wembley
This would effectively give some sort of additional benefit for every place achieved higher than 8th. |
NFL playoff style |  | | |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 14:32 - Feb 12 with 30 views | HighgateBlue |
| Expanded Championship playoffs? on 19:54 - Feb 10 by FrimleyBlue |
I still think it should be top 3 going up only anyway.
I know we went up via play offs once. But to think with this a team in 8th could get promoted over 3rd is crazy |
And of course when we did (finally) go up via the playoffs, we had finished 3rd. 5 points clear of 4th. | | | |
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